CFH
STUDENT CONFERENCE
Hope College, Holland, Mich.
October 13-14, 2004
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, October 13, 2004
Registration 5:00-7:30pm (LOCATION TBA)
7:30-9:00 pm PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Eric Miller, Geneva College
Christianity, Class, and an Historian's Vocation
John Fea, Messiah College
THURSDAY, October 14, 2004
Registration: 7:30am (LOCATION TBA)
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 8:00-9:15am (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 1: Perspectives on the Civil War
Chair and Comment:
Fred Johnson, Hope College
Religious Beliefs of Civilians in the Old Northwest during the Civil
War
Sean Scott, Purdue University
The Briar Thicket Blues: Tennesseans who Fought for the Union
Sarah Decker, Malone College
Clashing Paradigms:
Taney, Lincoln, and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Joshua Mather, Covenant College
Session 2: Christian Inquiry and Historical Texts
Chair and Comment:
Preston Jones, John Brown University
Deconstructing the Christian Other:
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's Methodology
of Feminist Interpretation
Lauren A. Kerr, University of Houston
Embracing the Early Church:
Evangelicals, Patristics, Ecumenism, Ecclesiology
Philip Luke Sinitiere, University of Houston
Session 3: Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
Chair and Comment:
Derek Halvorson, Covenant College
Luther, Humanism and the Bible
Ryan Kelly, Hope College
Calvin and Hilary's Commentary on Psalm 1
Benjamin Austin, Trinity Christian College
Esoteric Spirituality and Popular Devotion in the Fourteenth Century:
Tensions in the Thought of Marguerite Porete and Meister Eckhart
Anna Thompson, Wheaton College
MORNING BREAK: 9:15-9:45am (LOCATION TBA)
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 9:45-11:00am (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 4: The Presidency in Twentieth-Century America
Chair and Comment:
Craig Kaplowitz, Judson College
The Divorce From Neutrality:
Woodrow Wilson's World War I Foreign Policy
Ryan Vroegindewey, Covenant College
U.S. Information Agency's Relationship with Eisenhower, 1953-1956
Mary Klinger, Kent State University
Session 5: Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
Chair and Comment:
Jay Case, Malone College
Slavery, the Bible and the Antebellum South:
Balancing Religious Adherence and Traditional Culture
Julie Peters, Kansas State University
A Vast Deal of Amusement with Much Instruction:
Playing at Learning in the 19th Century
Susan Fletcher, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
"To Abolish Slavery is a Good Thing, But It is Not Religion":
Why the Antislavery Francis Wayland was not an Abolitionist
Todd M. Thompson, Wheaton College
Session 6: Religion in Colonial America
Chair and Comment:
Jeffrey Webb, Huntington College
Primitive Christianity Revived:
John Wesley's Religious Societies
Geordan Hammond, University of Manchester
Piety and Ecumenism in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania
Jared Burkholder, University of Iowa
Religion and Civic Discourse in Provincial New York:
Samuel Johnson and His Presbyterian Critics
Rusty Robertson, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Session 7: Church-State Issues in American History
Chair and Comment:
Barry Hankins, Baylor University
Isaac Backus and the History of Religion and Politics in the United
States
Matthew Wasserstein, Washburn University
Free Churches within a Free State:
Baptist Efforts to Promote Religious Liberty, 1919-1945
Kenneth S. Culpepper, Baylor University
LUNCHEON: 11:30am-1:00pm
PLENARY LUNCHEON PANEL DISCUSSION: Christians in Graduate
School
Chair: Jonathan
Boyd, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Graduate and Faculty Ministries
Panelists:
Jonathan Boyd, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Graduate and Faculty
Ministries
Eric Carlsson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jay Green, Covenant College
John Fea, Messiah College
Eric Miller, Geneva College
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 1:30-2:45pm (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 8: Christianity and the Historian's Craft
Chair and Comment:
Howard Mattson-Boze, Geneva College
A Conference in Chaos: CFH and its Critics
Shawn J. Moser, Baylor University
A Time for Everything--Even Public History
Timothy Binkley, Wright State University
Confronting a Secular History:
The Work of Lamin
Sanneh in Mission History and World Christianity
Joshua
Grace, Point Loma Nazarene University
Session 9: Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism
Chair and Comment:
Kurt Peterson, North Park University
Clarence McCartney: Fundamentalist Thinker from Ministry to History
Gregory Jones, Geneva College
Mennonites and Fundamentalism/Evangelicalism:
The General Mennonite Church
Preston D. Goering, Kansas State University
Session 10: Perspectives on Historical
Theology
Chair and Comment:
Robert Caldwell, Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary
Old Princeton and Westminster:
Van Til on Reason and Belief in God and Biblical Inspiration
Allen S. Gehring Jr., Texas A&M
Thomistic Influence on the Christian Realist
Movement in America, 1925-1952
Mark Edwards, Purdue University
John Wesley's Christian Perfection and Theosis
Sean Dean, Fuller Theological Seminary
AFTERNOON BREAK: 2:45-3:15pm (LOCATION TBA)
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 3:15-4:30pm (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 11: American Popular Culture in the 1960s
Chair and Comment:
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Calvin College
"Better to Reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven":
Rolling Stone, the Sixties, and the Conquest of Cool
Matthew Stewart, Geneva College
Prophecy Belief in the Six Day War
Jeremy McLellan, Covenant College
Session 12: Jewish Life in Medieval Europe
Chair and Comment:
Caitlin Corning, George Fox University
Jews: A Persecuted People or a Tolerated Minority?
A Comparative Study on the Treatment of Jews in Medieval
Christian and Muslim Spain
Tiffany Hanson, Malone College
Neither In Nor Out: Religion and Society in Fatimid Egypt, 969-1094
Kirsten Heacock, Gordon College
Session 13: Community in Twentieth-Century America
Chair and Comment:
Michael Sider-Rose, Chicago Semester Program
An Account of East St. Louis's Development Without a Social
Contract
Colin Chapell, Covenant College
A "Positive" Change?: The End of Communalism in the Amana Society
Anita Talsma Gaul, University of Iowa
Messiah College's Philadelphia Campus: Vision, Purpose, and Reality
Sarah D. Mackin, Messiah
College
4:30pm: ADJOURNMENT